natural science
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noun
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the sciences collectively that are involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena, including biology, physics, chemistry, and geology, but excluding social sciences, abstract or theoretical sciences, such as mathematics, and applied sciences
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any one of these sciences
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Origin of natural science
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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The Oakland Museum of California is home to more than 2 million objects dedicated to telling the story of California through collections of art, history and natural science.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
No items have been identified as missing from the art collection, nor from the natural science collection "although there is an ongoing programme of review in relation to research loans".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
Hot jobs in the state of Washington include engineers, architects, insurance appraisers, food service and natural science managers, web and software developers and other tech-field jobs.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
“So it’s a good one to start with. But now the question is, how do you generalize it and go to more interesting natural science problems?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Both sets of terms, like their Greek originals, included the whole study of nature, animate and inanimate—thus Boyle’s Physiological Essays of 1661 are about natural science as a whole.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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